# Sad Song of Yellow Skin

color Playing time: 30 min., 38 sec. -------------- “Written, directed and spoken by Michael Rubbo” Produced by Tom Daly -------------- technical credits at end ----------- For more information on this film, see Wikipedia viewed Aug. 30, 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Song_of_Yellow_Skin Excerpt from page: Sad Song of Yellow Skin is a 1970 direct cinema-style documentary film on the effects of the Vietnam War on street children in Saigon. The 58-minute documentary was written, directed and narrated by Michael Rubbo and produced by Tom Daly for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). ----------------- Don Luce and Kevin Byrne \[?\] talk about reactions of Vietnamese to Americans; Vietnamese people in bar with American television news in the background with Richard Nixon and “comedy”: weather girl making fun of “weather” in Vietnam; Michael Rubbo talks in English with scenes of Vietnamese daily life and musical interludes; Byrne \[?\] talks in Vietnamese to “bar girls“ (prostitutes); Tran \[---\] talks in English about death of bar girl, funeral follows; Rubbo talks in English about Vietnamese Buddhist religious rituals and practices topics mentioned: Vietnam War; American GI’s; prostitution; opium; NLF (National Liberation Front); Catholicism; Buddhism; Taoism

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1970
- By: National Film Board of Canada
- Genres: War, Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MotionPicture0030)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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